Improvement in bale-ties and straining-levers



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No, 22,813. Patentedlammmz,

l l l UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES O. OOIT, OF OHERAW, SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES AND STRAINING-LEVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,813, dated January 1d, 1872.

Specication describing Improvements in Mode of Constructing a Straining-Lever and Bale-Tie for Packing Bands, invented by JAMES O. OOIT, of Oheraw, in the county of Chesterfield and State of South Carolina.

The invention will be first fully describedin connection with the drawing' and subsequently pointed out in the claims.

Figure l of drawing is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a plan View.

A represents a packing-band, and B C the hookandeye frames by which the band is fastened over a bale of cotton or goods of any character which require compression. On the frame B are ahook, b', and guide-flanges b b, and on the frame O are grapple-lianges c c, which eX- tend in latitude beyond the Width of the frame B. D is a tool, having two prongs, d d, set `far enough apart to allow the body ofthe frame B to pass between them. At the end of each prong d is a grapple-hook, d, of less Width than either of said prongs. The inner top surface d2 of said prongs serve as guides on which the ilanges b b of the fra-me B slide. They are also curved at d3, and terminate where the shanks of grapple-hooks d1 begin. E E are two prongs on the handle end of the tool "1D, placed at right angles thereto, and which are used for bending the ends ofthe band.

The mode of operation is as follows: The frames B C being rmly attached in any suitable manner to the ends of the band A, the latter is placed around any package whose bulk is to be reduced by compression, and the frame O passed under and up between the prongs d d. Having now been turned so that the llanges b b rest upon the guides d2 d2, the grapples d1 d1 are passed over the anges c c of large frames G, and the tool D is ready for action. By lifting the tool by one end and upon the other as a fulcrum the large frame O is drawn forward to meet the frame B, which slides down upon the guides d2 d2. When the tool reaches a position at right angles, or nearly so, to the band, the hook b falls into the eye of the frame G, the band is securely tied, and the package eli'ectually compressed.

Having thusdescribed all thatl is necessary to a full understanding' of my invention, what I'esteein to be new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

l. The bale-tie herein described, composed of hook-and-eye frames B O provided with flanges -Zg b c c and hook b', respectively, constructe'd as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a bale-tie construct THos. D. D.l OURAND. (7) 

